Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-10-21
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

B.
lie.
Frank l.. Brett, the brakeman who
had his leg crushed at Wilkeson last
week, died few days ago, at the hos
pital i'll Tacoma.
From 1880 to 1887 the Auditor OF
Spokane County issued 5l9 mar
rage licenses, and the District Court
| Clerk filed lib petitions for divorce.
Dayton will shortly have one Of the
largest brass bands on the Coast. 1t
will, it is said, consist OF 80 pieces. 1t
will be composed of young men of
Dayton and vicinity.
A special train consisting of four
teen coal and two box cars was wrecked
at Puyallup Saturday night about 6
o'clock. Eight coal cars were smashed
up and scventy-ieet Of track was torn
up. No one hurt.
Between Toledo and Vancouver is a
fine body of timber and agricultural
land rs can be found on the north
west coast, much Of which is unoccu
pied. The proposed route of the Port
Townsend Southern Railroad will pass
directly through this country, and
open to settlement land enough for
hundred thousand people.-Pilot.
On and after October 18th through
emigrant slcepers will be run between
Tacoma and st. Paul. Under the new
arrangement there will be no change
of cars between Tacoma and Eastern
terminals. Heretofore there have
been changes of cars at Easton, East
OF the mountains coming and going
These will be dispensed with on Mon
day next.
A woman named Mary Stewart at
tempted suicide, at Seattle, last Tues
day, by jumping into the bay. She
was seen by some Indians, in canoes,
taken from the water and turned over
to the police authorities. 1t seems
that she had been living with a worth
less fellow named Harry Brazier, who
has deserted her, and this led to drink
and finally an attempt on her life
In the report of the U. S. pension
agent we find that Washington Terri
tory has 900 persons who are drawing
$27 ,26O so per quarter. Pacific county
has IL who draws $26S, Wahkiakum
has 5 who draws $3.50 and Chehalis 90
who draw 1888. The United States
has total of 399,O37 pensioners who
receive $l2.3S7 ,5SS 80 per quarter.
OF this number, 1851 are now living
in foreign countries, who receive $73,-
79S 81.
The Port Townsend CaH: Puget
Sound will be hereafter known as the
Seattle Steamboat District. The rea-
son for the change is said to be to IA
cilitate correspondence between the
authorities at Washington and the
local boards, so they changed the
names of the districts from the body
of water to the postofiice location of
the inspector, Puget Sound" district
to Seattle" and Willamette" dis
trict to " Portland" district.
A large hop kiln and warehouse,
owned by Van Ogle, of Tacoma, was
destroyed by fire at his farm near
Elhi, Wednesday morning, about 8
o'clock. The loss is about $4,000 to
hops and building, upon which there
was no insurance. The fire originated
in the drying kiln. Mr.. Van Ogle
had the hops insured some time ago,
but ON Saturday last the insurance ex-
PRED. This is the only hop house that
has been destroyed by fire in the val
ley this fall.
Yakima Signal: There now seems
to be no reason for doubling but what
the Moss Bay Iron Co., of England,
will establish works in the Cle-elum
country. Pete Kirke, of this company
recently said that plant to the value
of $4,000, 600 would be located there,
and Mr.. Palmer, who is understood to
represent Kirke and the land depart
ment of the Northern Pacific, recent
ly purchased number of claims to
iron lands few miles from the town
OF Cle-elum, paying therefore $12 800.
From the Assessors returns the to-
tai valuation of property in Cowlitz
county is found to be $Sl3,73S, di-
vided as follows: Value of real estate,
$413,177: value of improvements,
500, 1872; value of personal property,
$500, APO. There will be an addition
to the personal property by amount of
valuation of the two telegraph lines
running through the county. Taken
all together the assessment is $4,000
| a hnvn n Of q
sus shows population of 1897. There
are % persons in the county between
the ages Of 20 and So
Last Monday the writ OF habeas
corpus in behalf OF the men indicted
by the Grand Jury of Chehalis county
for breaking and destroying the fish
traps of William Church in Chehalis
river, came up. The court passed
judgment oyerruling the writ of habeas
corp43 and remanded the prisoners to
the Sheriff of Chehalis county. Their
nam are: Gus Bendjus, Robert
Strongland, Ben Frederi"kson, Frank
Nelson, Andrew johnson, Leander
Brown, John Thompson, since Ode
ceased) Alex. Argren and Thos. Jacobs.
w. NJ. Lee, the well known horti-
culturist OF Tacoma says: Washing
ton Territory has the soil and favora-
BILE climate to produce as many ber-
ries to the acre as any other State in
the Union. Large crops of strawber-
ries are raised here on both fir and
valley land. The berries grow to an
enormous size, measuring from four to
seven inches in circumference. They
are also remunerative crop. Mr.. |
Fuller raises 300 bushels to the acre,
Mr.. Perry 21O bushels, while 200
bushels is considered fair yield. One
acre of strawberries here has yielded
ISL 600 clear profit.
Logging is being carried on extern
sively on the Cowlitz river and it's
branches at present, and all engaged
in the business are as busy as bees.
John Hartley, whose camp is seven
miles up the Olequa, is getting out
$4,000 feet per day, and below him
George McClain 10000 nor dow